Anybody read a good book lately?

[SD_Eagle5]

Agreed, even Lorenzo Booker with Tony Hunt as his lead blocker. Probably the greatest O line in the history of the NFL.

[Rome]

Reading "Everyman" by Philip Roth right now.  Excellent thus far.  About 1/2 through it and should be done in a couple of days.

[rjs246]

I didn't like Everyman. Old man whines about his life and dies. Has some anal with a model in the mean time. The end.

[Rome]

Jew hater.

[Diomedes]

Roth escapes me.

[Rome]

The Plot Against America is next up for me.

I like his writing quite a bit.

[General_Failure]

Finished up reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson a couple days ago. It is a very good 250 page story, but that is wrapped up inside of almost 700 other pages of lecturing and jibberish words he made up. I really liked it, but I probably would have liked it more if it hadn't stopped every ten pages to start up a new lecture.

[phattymatty]

Finished up reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson a couple days ago. It is a very good 250 page story, but that is wrapped up inside of almost 700 other pages of lecturing and jibberish words he made up. I really liked it, but I probably would have liked it more if it hadn't stopped every ten pages to start up a new lecture.

weird i literally just two days ago started reading my first neal stephenson book, quicksilver.  pretty cool so far.

[General_Failure]

If you can get through the first 80 pages, Quicksilver is a good read.

[Diomedes]

Yeah so I finished David Simon's Homicide and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Murder detective is one hell of a job, an honorable one.  I learned a bunch about the profession and a bit about Baltimore.  I usually don't care for non-fiction, or for real crime writing per se, but the connection to Baltimore and The Wire led me to it and I'm glad I read it.  A couple images stick with me from Homicide, mainly about the mentality of a murder police.  These guys are the real deal, I'm glad they're out there.  They also have a wicked sense of humor that most of us at relish.

Just picked up Lush Life by Richard Price.  I hear good things about it, we'll see.

[Seabiscuit36]

They are Murder Police

[rjs246]

I am reading Slash, which is Slash's autobiography. It's interesting because I heart GNR but it pretty much just reads like a series of stories about stuff that happened to him. There's no insight into anything. It's mindless and enjoyable, but probably a waste of time for anyone who doesn't care about Guns N Roses (or Velvet Revolver, I guess, but I'm not sure that anyone anywhere cares about Velvet Revolver).

[Wingspan]

After not liking All the Pretty Horses...and really not liking the movie No Country for Old Men. I decided to read No Country for Old Men. I enjoyed the book much more than the movie....

[rjs246]

Don't make me hit you.

[Wingspan]

I said I liked it.

All the pretty horses sucked though. Seriously...who cares about two teenagers riding through the desert doing nothing? It was like an unfunny western seinfeld episode.